Radeon AMD isn't ruling out ray tracing for its new Radeon RX 5000 GPUsEngadget - Devindra HardawarAMD finally unveiled its first Navi-based "RDNA" video cards this morning, the Radeon RX 5000-series. But, curiously, it's still keeping plenty of details under wraps. In particular, the company hasn't
Acer Acer brings NVIDIA’s Quadro RTX 5000 to its ConceptD 7 laptopEngadget - Daniel CooperThe pro machine will get the highly-coveted professional graphics gear. Earlier this year, Acer announced its ConceptD range of high-end notebooks designed to woo away folks who had gone sour on the MacBook
Nvidia Razer updates the Blade with NVIDIA’s new Quadro RTX 5000Engadget - Daniel CooperThe Razer Blade Studio Edition laptops come with NVIDIA's blessing and support. Hot on the heels of NVIDIA announcing the arrival of its Quadro RTX 5000 for laptops, comes the parade of companies who signed
Nvidia NVIDIA is bringing pro-level Quadro RTX GPUs to laptopsEngadget - Daniel CooperThe Quadro RTX 5000 series is now available in mobile form. NVIDIA has succeeded in shrinking its beefy Quadro RTX 5000 graphics hardware in order to bring it to laptops. The silicon offers 3,072 CUDA
Play buttonNvidia NVIDIA is giving away the 'Quake II' ray-tracing demo on June 6thEngadget - Daniel CooperA limited, three-level demo will be available to download and play. Earlier this year, a team inside NVIDIA took Quake II and ran it through its ray tracing system to see if the 1997 title could be gussied
Snap-dragon Lenovo's Project Limitless 5G laptop makes a lot of promisesEngadget - Cherlynn LowBig caveat: It’s not fully ready for prime time yet. When you name a product Project Limitless, it better truly have no limits. But the 5G laptop that Lenovo so boldly named and teased here at Computex
Technology ARM's latest chip designs promise 60 percent faster AI on phonesEngadget - Jon FingasARM isn't boasting about PC-crushing performance like it did in 2018, but it still has plenty of swagger going into Computex 2019. The designer has unveiled two new chip architectures that promise giant
Advanced Micro Devices AMD's third-gen Ryzen 9 CPU is a 12-core powerhouse for $499Engadget - Devindra HardawarAMD is bringing the fight to Intel in a big way with its new Ryzen chips. AMD just dropped the mic when it comes to ultra-fast consumer CPUs. At Computex today, AMD CEO Lisa Su introduced the company's
Radeon AMD's first Navi GPUs are the Radeon RX 5000-seriesEngadget - Devindra HardawarThe Radeon RX 5700 will target NVIDIA's mid-range RTX 2070. Just as we expected, AMD took the wraps off of its first 7nm Navi consumer GPU's today at Computex, though the company is still playing coy details.
Microsoft Microsoft AI creates realistic speech with little trainingEngadget - Jon FingasText-to-speech conversion is becoming increasingly clever, but there's a problem: it can still take plenty of training time and resources to produce natural-sounding output. Microsoft and Chinese researchers
Tesla Tesla starts locking down features on entry-level Model 3Engadget - Jon FingasTesla's entry-level Model 3 has been available to order for a while (lately in limited form), but early buyers have technically been getting more -- without the promised software lock, drivers were effectively
Microsoft Microsoft, Alphabet team up to teach quantum computer programmingEngadget - Jon FingasThe very concept of a quantum computer can be daunting, let alone programming it, but Microsoft thinks it can offer a helping hand. It's partnering with Alphabet's X and Brilliant on an online curriculum
Airbnb Airbnb agrees to share data for over 17,000 NYC listingsEngadget - Jon FingasThis includes a fuller list of rentals that might have broken the law. Airbnb and New York City are inching closer to making peace over data sharing. To start, the home rental outfit has reached an agreement
Play buttonRobert Moog Moog museum tells the history of popular synthesized musicEngadget - Jon FingasThe North Carolina location features Bob Moog's work and beyond. There's no doubt that Bob Moog had a massive influence on music by making synthesizers popular and accessible, and now there's a dedicated
Grindr Grindr's owner gave staff access to sensitive user dataEngadget - Jon FingasThe US pushed for the selloff after learning of the privacy issue. When the US pushed Grindr's owner to sell the app over national security concerns, it made only vague allusions to what might have prompted
Ergonomics The best ergonomic keyboardEngadget - WirecutterA keyboard like this can help reduce hand, arm and shoulder pain. This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter's independently chosen editorial picks, Wirecutter
Play buttonDigital Citizenship A parent's guide to raising a good digital citizenEngadget - Alyssa WalkerThe world is filled with technological pitfalls and online dangers. "Do you know what you're looking at?" I ask my five-year-old and seven-year-old when we're on the iPad. "Yeah, yeah," they grumble as
Cannes Film Festival Netflix acquires Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix winnerEngadget - Jon FingasIt also bought an independent critics' winner at the festival. Netflix isn't done pushing back against Cannes for rejecting its movies -- if anything, it's escalating the fight. The company has acquired
Politics After Math: What's the holdup?Engadget - Andrew TarantolaMake like a ska band's hype man and pickitup, pickitup, pickitup This week's theme is waiting. Sonic the Hedgehog fans will have to do three months of it after complaining about Sonic's oddly human teeth,
Technology Intel's Core i9-9900KS CPU can run all eight cores at 5GHzEngadget - Devindra HardawarIt wouldn't be Computex if Intel didn't have some sort of geek-friendly CPU reveals. This time around, it's the Core i9-9900KS, a "special edition" upgrade of its flagship 9900K. The biggest improvement?
Overwatch Intel's 10nm 'Ice Lake' CPUs can actually run games well in 1080pEngadget - Devindra HardawarHere's what you can expect from Intel's 11th generational integrated graphics. In December, Intel promised that its upcoming 10nm laptop CPUs will feature integrated graphics with over a teraflop worth
Taipei We’re live from Computex 2019 in Taipei!Engadget - Daniel CooperDon't buy a new PC or laptop until you've seen what's being announced. Every summer, the PC industry descends on the capital of Taiwan to show off the latest in components, laptops and gaming gear. It's
Poland Poland challenges EU's new copyright law over censorship fearsEngadget - Jon FingasIt says the content filtering requirement is a step backward. The EU's contentious copyright law is already facing some opposition from one of its existing members. Poland has submitted a complaint to
Play buttonApple Mac security hole reportedly lets attackers bypass app safeguardsEngadget - Jon FingasYou'd just need to trick the Mac into loading a network share. Apple may have another Gatekeeper security flaw on its hands. Researcher Filippo Cavallarin has detailed a macOS vulnerability that he said
Fiat Chrysler Fiat Chrysler may strike Renault deal to survive changing car industryEngadget - Jon FingasIt could help the company adapt to EVs, ridesharing and more. Fiat Chrysler hasn't been on the cutting edge of automotive change as of late. Unless you count concepts like the Centoventi, the company done
Alexa Alexa's intercom-like broadcasts come to more non-Echo devicesEngadget - Jon FingasAmazon has slowly been expanding the circle of devices that can use Alexa Announcements, but now it's throwing the gates wide open. The company has made the intercom-like feature available to any device
Microsoft Leak shows Microsoft's very purple 'Fortnite' Xbox One SEngadget - Jon FingasIf you don't mind getting an outgoing console, you'll be set. Microsoft's rumored Fortnite Xbox One appears to be real... and it wouldn't just be a basic software bundle. WinFuture claims to have obtained
Xbox One 'Dauntless' success leads to hours-long wait times across platformsEngadget - Mariella MoonThe launch of Phoenix Labs' co-op hunting RPG Dauntless was such a huge success, the developer has announced that the game attracted 4 million players in just a couple of days. In fact, the game drummed
Apple Watch Apple Watch ECG is coming to Canada 'as quickly as possible'Engadget - Jon FingasCanucks won't have to sit on the sidelines while their Apple Watch-toting friends in the US, Europe and Hong Kong perform electrocardiograms. Apple has confirmed that it's bringing the Watch Series 4's
National Security Agency (NSA) Ransomware attacks in US cities are using a stolen NSA toolEngadget - Jon FingasThe ransomware attacks in Baltimore and other US cities appear to have a common thread: they're using NSA tools on the agency's home soil. In-the-know security experts talking to the New York Times said
